Posts tagged “Black Shell Media”

Card Quest [Steam page] arrived in my inbox billed as a card combat roguelike dungeon crawler; a genre combo which caused a chill of fear to run down my spine. That or I left the window open and it's January. Oh wait - maybe it was the window because I booted the game up and accidentally spent an hour-long phone call playing it in the…

Each week Marsh Davies wriggles free of his shackles and flees, filthy and naked, from the dank imprisonment of Early Access, bringing you stories of the depravities he endured therein. This week he’s playing Dungeon Souls, a frenetic top-down roguelike in which the player battles through successive tiers of peril, nipping between abruptly spawning enemies and hails of magic bullets. Titan Souls, Twin Souls, Crystal…

The most popular FPS of 2037 will be a fingerguns RPG hybrid where characters' adherence to the kayfabe of imaginary Uzis, grenades, pump-action shotguns and headshots depends on your relationship with them. We can't predict the direction the genre will go on, which weird addition or experiment will catch on then be repeated and iterated upon for years, compounding with other oddities to make something…